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The following article contains information on Multimedia Team emails, canned email templates for responses to common situations, and Gmelius—an add-on tool we use for Gmail.

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Gmail is Boise State’s officially supported, full-featured email client. To learn more check out the following:

Email Signatures

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/8395?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop

https://docs.google.com/document/d/110YhcUQsI82DU9nmZtQaQmJf0ScOmlQday6dgN594Kk/edit

Team Emails

The Multimedia Team’s email address is eCampusvideo@boisestate.edu which allows us to field general inquiries related to Multimedia in online courses, as well as, serve as the email used for software accounts such as Adobe CC, Google Drive, iCloud, Panopto, H5P, Pressbooks, Promptsmart, etc. allowing us to handle the test of time and easily share access with team members.

Managing eCampusVideo Emails

Each week

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an MMD is assigned to monitor emails sent to our eCampusVideo account at the beginning and end of each day. The person assigned is indicated in the eCampus Video Google Calendar.

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  • First make sure you’ve installed the “Gmelius for Gmail” extension in Chrome.

  • Also make sure you've logged in to Gemlius using your Google account.

  • Login to your Gmail account.

  • Manage emails using the Kanban interface by navigating to…

    • Ecampusvideo > Board view

    • and Boards > MM Emails

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  • All emails in the “Unassigned” column should be either…

    • Assigned to the appropriate team member, by dragging the email into their column.

    • Right clicked and marked as closed.

    • Forwarded to an appropriate person outside our media team, and marked as closed.

    • Or responded to, and not marked as closed, because there are issues yet to be resolved.

  • Check the account daily.

  • Emails should be assigned, closed, forwarded or responded to within 1 business day.

  • On Monday, when a new MMD takes over emails…

    • The only emails that should be in the “unassigned” column are emails that arrived over the weekend (after 5pm Friday), or emails that have been responded to but can’t yet be closed.

  • When assigning emails to team members…

  • Forward all eCampusVideo receipts to Linda Redman

Gmelius

The Multimedia Team uses Gmelius as an add-on to Gmail for managing emails sent to eCampusvideo@boisestate.edu. Some highlights of what we do with Gmelius include:

  1. access ecampusvideo@boisestate.edu emails from our personal Gmail accounts

  2. assign emails to team members

  3. create and share email templates with team members

See Gmelius (KB Connector article) for internal information and setup help.

Create and Share Email Templates

Use the eCampusvideo account for creating and sharing email templates with MM Team members.

Using Email Templates

  1. create a new email via Gmail

  2. add recipients

  3. type ‘#media’ in the subject line

  4. select the template

Gmail

Gmail is Boise State’s officially supported, full-featured email client. To learn more check out the following:

Email Signatures

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/8395?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop - this will walk you through setting up your email signature(s)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/110YhcUQsI82DU9nmZtQaQmJf0ScOmlQday6dgN594Kk/edit - reference this for creating your email signature

Email Templates

The following are emails that you may want to reference or save as a template.

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Additionally, a webinar is in the works on H5P for Faculty Development through eCampus this year so stay tuned on that. The university (LTS) is also looking into making H5P a university-supported tool outside of Pressbooks this year as well.

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